The flow field and bare-spot formation in spin-up from rest of a two-layer fluid about a vertical axis

DOI10.1017/S0022112002002604zbMath1020.76056OpenAlexW2072772235MaRDI QIDQ4808228

J. Mang, Marius Ungarish

Publication date: 9 October 2003

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112002002604

zbMATH Keywords

free surfacecylindrical containeraxisymmetric Navier-Stokes equationstwo-layer fluidEkman layersmall Ekman numbersspin-up from restbare-spot formation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Stratification effects in viscous fluids (76D50)

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